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| House used to make bomb in Qatar found |
| 2005-03-25 |
| DOHA, Qatar -- Police found the house where a militant assembled the car bomb used in a suicide attack a week ago that killed a British resident and injured a dozen other people, an Interior Ministry official said Friday. Qatari authorities have said an Egyptian named Omar Ahmed Abdullah Ali carried out the bombing of the Doha Players Theater during a performance packed with Europeans on March 19, a rare attack in this sleepy Gulf nation. "The security forces discovered the house where the Egyptian Omar Ahmed Abdullah Ali booby-trapped the car used in the criminal attack," the official said on condition of anonymity. The house, located in Al-Maamora area in Doha, had been rented by the suicide bomber. The official did not say what police found inside. In their Friday sermons, the imams of mosques in the Qatari capital condemned the suicide attack, saying that Islam is innocent of such criminal acts. A previously unknown Islamic militant group, the Jund al-Sham, posted a statement on an Islamic Web site claiming to have carried out the "historic" operation in Qatar. Qatari officials have not yet blamed any terrorist organization for the attack and are waiting until the end of the investigations in which French and British experts are taking part. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 Rolled heads assurededly. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-03-25 7:51:37 PM |